Psalms 44:2-12

2 how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.
3 Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.
4 You are my king and my God; you give victory to your people,
5 and by your power we defeat our enemies.
6 I do not trust in my bow or in my sword to save me;
7 but you have saved us from our enemies and defeated those who hate us.
8 We will always praise you and give thanks to you forever.
9 But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated; you no longer march out with our armies.
10 You made us run from our enemies, and they took for themselves what was ours.
11 You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign countries.
12 You sold your own people for a small price as though they had little value.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. [Some ancient translations] and my God; you give; [Hebrew] O God; give.
  • [b]. as . . . value; [or] and made no profit from the sale.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.